essences
\e.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“essences” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,829. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,829
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de essence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essences · essences · French
essences · rank #19,829 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,829
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH envi
Nearest frequency peer: envi (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « essences »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Elisa
Elisa
80,175 corpus weight
- Elliott
Elliott
80,174 corpus weight
- envi
envi
80,173 corpus weight
- essences
essences
80,172 corpus weight
- excursions
excursions
80,171 corpus weight
- expatriés
expatriés
80,170 corpus weight
What this shows « essences » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essences |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « essences »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around essences (IPA \e.sɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,829 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de essence.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for essences, with forms such as "esences", "esesnces", and "essecnes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "espèces", "essence", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is essences, spelled E-S-S-E-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de essence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essences appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, malgré l’attraction d’auto-adéquation que nous venons de reconnaître ou de laisser s’auto-manifester entre les procédés et les essences, il n’en reste pas moins que cette attraction garde en soi quelque chose d’abstrait et d’arbitraire et que, dans l’effectivité concrète des films existants, c’est plus exactement la relation réciproque des procé…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esences
- esesnces
- essecnes
- essencces
- essencess
- essencse
- essenecs
- essennces
- essneces
- sesences
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essences - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).